Re:Eliud Kipchoge Breaks Two-Hour Marathon Barrier
by YeGoblynQueenne on Saturday October 12, 2019 @08:15AM
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Aye, found the passage from Small Gods:
Hierarchy, Vorbis said later. The Ephebians didn't think in terms of hierarchies.
No army could cross the desert. But maybe a small army could get a quarter of the way, and leave a cache of water. And do that several times. And another small army could use part of that cache to go further, maybe reach halfway, and leave a cache. And another small army . . .
It had taken months. A third of the men had died, of heat and dehydration and wild animals and worse things, the worse things that the desert held . . .
Hierarchy, Vorbis said later. The Ephebians didn't think in terms of hierarchies.
No army could cross the desert. But maybe a small army could get a quarter of the way, and leave a cache of water. And do that several times. And another small army could use part of that cache to go further, maybe reach halfway, and leave a cache. And another small army . . .
It had taken months. A third of the men had died, of heat and dehydration and wild animals and worse things, the worse things that the desert held . . .